WILLIAM MUIR, K.C.S.I.
LL.D., D.C.L., PH.D (BOLOGNA)
A NEW AND REVISED EDITION BY
T. H. WEIR, M.A., D.D. (ABERDEEN)
Lecturer in Arabic in the University of Glasgow.
Author of "Arabic Prose Composition"
"Variants in the Gospel Reports"
EDINBURGH: JOHN GRANT
31 GEORGE IV BRIDGE
1924
CHAPTER I
11 A.H.—Death of Mohammad—Election of Abu Bekr—'Omar,
'Ali, Abu 'Obeida
CHAPTER II
Expedition of Usama to Syrian border
CHAPTER III
Attack of Bedawin on Medina; repelled by Abu Bekr
CHAPTER IV
Return of Usama—Bedawin chastised—Expeditions organized
against apostate tribes
CHAPTER VI
Apostasy crushed—Al-Bahrein, 'Oman, The Hijaz, Ibn
Ma'dikerib, Al-Ash'ath—Freebooter burned to death
CHAPTER IX
12-13 A.H.—Syrian campaign—Battle of Ajnadain—
Capitulation of Fihl
CHAPTER X
Al-'Irak—Battle of Babylon—Al-Muthanna’s appeal for
reinforcements
CHAPTER XI
13 A.H.—Abu Bekr's death—'Omar nominated by him Caliph
CHAPTER XIII
14 A.H.—Syria—Fall of Damascus
CHAPTER XIV
Al-'Irak—Fresh levies—Sa'd—Yezdejird—Rustem’s
advance—Battle of Al-Kadisiya—Discomfiture of Persian army
CHAPTER XV
15-16 A.H.—Al-Hira reoccupied—Fall of Al-Medain
CHAPTER XVI
16 A.H.—Battle of Jalula—'Omar forbids advance—Al-Kufa
and Al-Basra—Land settlement of Al-'Irak
CHAPTER XVII
15 A.H.—Northern Syria, Hims, Antioch—Heraclius
retires—Battle of the Yarmuk
CHAPTER XVIII
Jerusalem submits to 'Omar—His visit—Ordinance of 'Omar
CHAPTER XXI
18 A.H.—Famine—Plague—'Omar visits Syria—Mu'awiya—Bilal
CHAPTER XXII
19-20 A.H.—Conquest of Egypt—Alexandria
CHAPTER XXIII
16-20 A.H.—Southern Persia—Sus—Tomb of Daniel—Al-Hormuzan
CHAPTER XXIV
21-22 A.H.—Conquest of Persia—Battle of Nihavend—Flight
of Yezdejird
CHAPTER XXVI
23 A.H.—Death of 'Omar—Appointment of Electors
CHAPTER XXVII
23-24 A.H.—'Othman—Murder of Al-Hormuzan
CHAPTER XXVIII
24-35 A.H.—Arabs and Koreish—Hashimites and Umeiyads—Campaigns
in East and West—Naval victory
CHAPTER XXX
33-34 A.H.—Growing disaffection—Outbreak at Al-Kufa—'Ali
warns 'Othman
CHAPTER XXXI
34-35 A.H.—Outlook darkens—Conference of Governors—Mu'awiya's
help declined
CHAPTER XXXII
35 A.H.—Conspirators attack Medina—Palace
besieged—'Othman slain
CHAPTER XXXIII
35-36 A.H.—Election of 'Ali—Excitement at Damascus—War
proclaimed against Mu'awiya
CHAPTER XXXIV
36 A.H.—'Aisha at Mecca—Joined by Talha and Az-Zubeir—They
seize Al-Basra
CHAPTER XXXV
'Ali's advance on Al-Basra—Battle of the Camel—Talha and
Az-Zubeir killed—'Aisha retires to Medina
CHAPTER XXXVI
Al-Kufa seat of Government—Egypt—Mu'awiya at Damascus
threatens regicides
CHAPTER XXXVII
36-37 A.H.—Hostilities between 'Ali and Mu'awiya—Battle
of Siffin—Arbitration—Abu Musa and 'Amr, Umpires
CHAPTER XXXVIII
37 A.H.—Khawarij rebel against 'Ali—Yield to him
CHAPTER XXXIX
Decision of Umpires—Mu'awiya Caliph at Damascus
CHAPTER XL
'Ali marches against Mu'awiya—Recalled by Khariji
outbreak—Battle of Nahrawan—Khawarij
CHAPTER XLI
38 A.H.—'Amr takes Egypt for Mu'awiya
CHAPTER XLII
38-40 A.H.—Khariji risings—Ziyad—Treaty between 'Ali and
Mu'awiya
CHAPTER XLIII
40 A.H.—Khariji conspiracy—'Ali assassinated—Mu'awiya
escapes
CHAPTER XLIV
40-41 A.H.—Al-Hasan—Abdicated in favour of Mu'awiya—Death
of Al-Hasan
CHAPTER XLVI
56 A.H.—Yezid declared Heir-apparent—Forms a precedent—Yezid's
Bedawi mother
CHAPTER XLVII
60-61 A.H.—Yezid—Ibn az-Zubeir at Mecca—Al-Hosein
marches on Al-Kufa—Tragedy of Kerbala—Death of Al-Hosein—The Moharram
CHAPTER XLIII
61-64 A.H.—'Alid reaction—Ibn az-Zubeir affects
Caliphate—Mecca besieged—Death of Yezid
CHAPTER LII
96-99 A.H.—Suleiman—Khorasan—Koteiba's rebellion—Yezid,
son of Al-Muhallab—Attack on Constantinople
CHAPTER LIII
99-101 A.H.—'Omar II.—Fall of Yezid—Efforts at
conversion
CHAPTER LVII
126-130 A.H.—Ibrahim—Merwan II.—Ibn Mu'awiya—Suleiman
Ad-Dahhak—Khawarij—Spain slips from Caliphate
CHAPTER LVIII
64-130 A.H.—The Arab tribal feuds in Khorasan
CHAPTER LX
132-656 A.H.—'Abbasid Dynasty—General features
CHAPTER LXI
132-136 A.H.—Abu'l-'Abbas—Hashimiya—Persecution of
Umeiyads—Ibn Hubeira—Abu Muslim’s pilgrimage
CHAPTER LXIII
158-169 A.H.—Al-Mehdi—Growing laxity—Manichaeans—War
with Greece
CHAPTER LXIV
169-193 A.H.—Al-Hadi—Harun ar-Rashid—Nicephorus—Fall of
Barmekis—Harun dies at Tus—Glory of his reign
CHAPTER LXV
193-198 A.H.—Al-Amin—Al-Ma'mun—Bagdad besieged—Tahir and
Harthama—Death of Al-Amin
CHAPTER LXVII
218-232 A.H.—Al-Mo'tasim—Turkish soldiery—Samarra—Bebek—Amorion—Al-Wathik
Heterodoxy—Ahmed the Martyr
CHAPTER LXVIII
232-247 A.H.—Al-Mutawakkil—Return to Orthodoxy—Ordinance
against Jews and Christians—Saffarids—Assassination
CHAPTER LXX
256-279 A.H.—Al-Mo'tamid and Al-Muwaffak—Zenj rebellion—Saffarids—Tulunid
Dynasty
CHAPTER LXXI
279-295 A.H.—Al-Mo'tadid—Al-Muktafi—Egypt—War with
Greeks
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